This is the first of a three part storyline we’ll be running for the week of Christmas. I guess the genesis of the idea was Wikileaks, and thinking what could they do that would really outrage people. I think ruining Christmas would just about do it. From there, everything else was just a slight heightening of reality.
And since a few people commented on our friend the elf with a war club, we brought him back.
When you think about the lyrics, “Santa Claus is Coming to Town” is actually a pretty creepy song. Still, it isn’t exactly giving children nightmares like “O Tannenbaum.” Thank you, Germans.
For those confused, Rick’s line is a reference to the Saw film franchise.
In college guys would say things like this a lot. This might explain the entire reason women are so insecure about their looks. Men are always saying some beautiful actress isn’t really that good looking around them. The women are smart enough to know they’re not as good looking as the celebrity, but stupid enough not to get that the man is grandstanding. Thus, body issues. The men hear their friends saying this and start to believe they’re the only ones who think the celebrity is attractive, thus distorting their view of beauty.
There, I have sufficiently offended both sexes.
This was kind of a fun, spur of the moment strip. I’d like to lie and say it came in a dream, but it did come immediately following waking up from one. So, that’s sort of mystical in a completely not-at-all manner.
Anyway, Macbeth has always been a favorite play, and these lines seem to fit well with the idea of putting off papers (with a little strong arming of them, of course).
The idea for this strip really came from the whole concept of “Who watches the watchers?” I’m always intrigued by the ability of many people to believe in complex conspiracy theories, but never question the people delivering those theories to them.
Of course, that’s not to say there is anything nefarious necessarily about Wikileaks, but some healthy skepticism about them, as well as their targets, certainly wouldn’t hurt. Then again, I just described paranoia.
This strip stemmed from two separate frustrations. One, that I tried to see the new Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows film over the weekend, only to find it sold out each time I went by the theater. Two, that I have on several occasions been interested in seeing a film only to find myself thwarted by every perceivable distribution method (DVD, Blu-ray, rent, purchase, Redbox, Netflix, iTunes, and even pirating). The moral? Some stories are perhaps best left untold.
As a teacher, I see this a lot. Young men confused why young women aren’t as interested in video games as them. I also see young women confused why young men don’t understand this. The same reason young women don’t understand young men not being interested in Katherine Heigl films.
Dorks simply cannot win. Even when they become billionaire manipulators of the world, they still have people making movies about what dorks they are. Worse, the movies are written by other dorks. It’s dork on dork violence. Can’t we all just get along to a Dungeons and Dragons convention?
We should be ashamed of this strip. We are.
Job interviews do reveal the meaning of life, I think. They are so grueling and soul-crushing that you start to question the meaning of it all. Do you even want a job? There’s something poetic in it all.
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